HASH HOUSE Definition & Meaning

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hash house

Slang.

an inexpensive restaurant, diner, or the like, that serves a limited number of short-order dishes:
We stopped for lunch at a roadside hash house.

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An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

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It’s another hash house on the road to success.

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“But rather than turn the Colony into a hash house, I prefer to close.”

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Look here, mum, I want to go back to the beginning, to when I was a kid, an' mother kep' that hash house in Abilene.

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We get pitched out of five before I steer him to a hash house.

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Having asked me to eat with him at a ten-cent hash house, he inveigled me to an evening service, and for the warmth I went with him.

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